Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue
Richard Phelps (circa 1718-1785), Portrait painter
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
[Caveat: Richard Phelps (c.1720-71) diplomat and traveller]
1746?
Painting by Richard Phelps and C. W. Bampfylde (1720-91), signed by both artists, the latter on a grey hunter, the former as a groom with a bay hunter, at Hestercombe, Somerset,which Bampfylde inherited in 1750. Guy Morrison, London. The date was read as 1746, which seems too early; Bampfylde exhibited at the Society of Artists, London, and RA between 1763 and 1783.
1771
Drawing by Richard Phelps, see NPG 1797a.
1779
Drawing by Richard Phelps, half-length oval. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (1472; D. B. Brown, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings, IV, The Earlier British Drawings, 1982, p 494). Looking slightly fuller in the face and less forbidding than in NPG 1797a.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.
1746?
Painting by Richard Phelps and C. W. Bampfylde (1720-91), signed by both artists, the latter on a grey hunter, the former as a groom with a bay hunter, at Hestercombe, Somerset,which Bampfylde inherited in 1750. Guy Morrison, London. The date was read as 1746, which seems too early; Bampfylde exhibited at the Society of Artists, London, and RA between 1763 and 1783.
1771
Drawing by Richard Phelps, see NPG 1797a.
1779
Drawing by Richard Phelps, half-length oval. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (1472; D. B. Brown, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings, IV, The Earlier British Drawings, 1982, p 494). Looking slightly fuller in the face and less forbidding than in NPG 1797a.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.